Per amore di un'ombra

When his mother goes missing, young Flaps decides to look for her and goes out into the world. Following the traces she left around the city of Naples, like a true puzzle, he discovers friendship with the teenager Marlo, love for the unreachable Dora, and, above all, the disturbing reason for his mother’s disappearance.

It is not the first time that Lory has vanished for a while. On these occasions, she has always left her seven-year-old son Flaps a few maps and clues which, when cracked, would reunite them. This time, however, something is different: the map is hidden in a locked drawer, Lory has been missing for at least three months and his father has no intention of looking for her. Flaps must resort to all his courage and investigative skills to solve a mystery that soon takes on the semblance of a great adventure, studded with encounters with a range of bizarre characters: Marlo, the Motherless, a teenager who helps Flaps escape from an attack by bullies, the oracle-gangster who only speaks in metaphors about the footballer Maradona, an aunt he has never seen and who has the name of a witch, and the mysterious Mr G.